Idols aged 22 years are elderly

Sashihara Rino provides her opinions about the shelf life of idols, and a recent 2ch threads follows up with their responses about the “appropriate” age range of idols.

First off, the three appropriate age ranges of idols, according to Sashihara Rino:

“16 years old is young”

“18 years old is middle aged”

“22 years old is elderly!”

In a sense, I can see where she’s going here, but the most notable exception I can recall is Shinoda Mariko, who didn’t enter AKB until she was 19 years old, and she was 27 years old when she graduated a few years back. Kojima Haruna, also still a member of AKB, is also 27 years old.

One might be hard pressed to call her elderly, but denizens of 2ch are quick to point out the exceptions as well:

Shibata, Takayanagi, Matsumura are all zombies! (柴田とか高柳とか松村はゾンビかよ)

This is the first time Sasshi has started saying random crap. (指原の適当発言は今に始まったことじゃない)